What are these sessions about?

Patterns and Antipatterns for Adopting IBM DevOps Tools

In this, we discuss our experience implementing various DevOps tools including Rational Team Concert, DOORs Next Generation, RDz, RDi, and other editors, as well as concepts regarding Agile adoption. We’ll cover what you should do, as well as examples of what not to do.

This is geared towards the audience with a general familiarity with IBM HATS. We’ll go over the general flow of designing different types of HATS apps from the simple to the complex. We’ll also cover testing strategies and introduce a Unit Testing framework we wrote to test custom HATS Java code in isolation from the host system. This unit test framework saves a HUGE amount of wasted time from regression errors and helps to promote and ensure quality deep in the system. We also cover some gotchas on performance testing.

The Skills Dilemma: A Panel Discussion with Peers and IBM Experts

Here, we’re on a panel with others members of the IBM community (business partners and IBM’ers) discussing how to get over the skills hurdle, how outsourcing is not a panacea, and how your organization can better prepare for the business challenges ahead.

About Us

We are an information technology consulting firm specializing in the areas of Enterprise Modernization, DevOps, and process improvement. We are experts at iterative (agile) software development frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe, and in enterprise architectures such as Spring, Java EE, and other such frameworks. We have successfully helped IT organizations reduce their total cost of operations by refactoring their enterprise IT architecture, updating legacy applications, and moving to more scalable architectural patterns of development.